Introduction to Kony Fabric: Using Integration Services

Using Integration Services

In this module, we will walk you thru creating your first Kony Fabric application. At the end of this module, you will understand how to use Kony Fabric to connect with backend APIs.

This learning course help you build a News and Weather application. To get a head start, you can get the Frontend Visualizer application from the Kony Git Repository.

We will go thru the below milestones in the course of this module:

Creating your first Kony Fabric Application

Now let’s get started with your first Kony Fabric application!

An application in Kony Fabric terms lets you logically group all your services and backend features under a single umbrella. Your Kony Fabric cloud can host multiple applications. Each application contains a group of services, and each service contains a group of operations. A service definition contains an Endpoint URL and additional parameters defining the connection. The operations created on top of this service pertain to each individual method available at the endpoint host.

Note: Services can also be created without being linked to an Application thru the API Management tab.

Connecting to your REST API

Connecting to your backend API via Kony Fabric is easy. You will need to define an Integration service, create a new service under Configure Services > Integration. Integration services let us configure a service to connect to a REST endpoint.

Kony supports connecting to a multitude of service types. For this module, we will showcase creating XML services.

The first thing you need, is to get your backend APIs in place. We are trying to build an application for showing News and Weather for a selected City. We will use Google News (https://news.google.com/) and Weather services hosted on weather.gov (https://graphical.weather.gov). Take note of the specification below :

Google News API

Service Type	XML
Base URL	https://news.google.com/news/section?output=rss
URL Parameters
topic	Accepts the Google News topic code to limit the news results for that category. Example Topic codes: World (w), US (n), Business (b), Technology (tc), Entertainment (e), Sports (s), Science (snc), Health (m)
q	Accepts one parameter and submits that to Google News as the query parameter to filter the news results. This is used to limit the results to a specific City or any search term sent as an input parameter.
Detailed specifications	https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/news/CwDLdEfUwSk

The video familiarizes you with creating Kony Integration service with the above mentioned specifications. We recommend you to create a sample service based on this video to have a real-time experience of Kony Fabric services.

For more information, refer to Integration Services.